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The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research and Education Promoting Animal Welfare [FIREPAW]

What is FIREPAW?

The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research and Education Promoting Animal Welfare is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research and public education of animal welfare issues.

Additional studies and papers of interest

The study, “Is there an animal welfare Kuznets Curve?”, is published in the Journal of Ecological Economics (Volume 66, pages 478-491). To read this article click HERE

Arguments Against AETA

FIREPAW’s article examining the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) (based on a conference presentation on the same subject), is published in the Peace Studies Journal, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal. Click here to read.

Animal Guardians in the Bahamas

FIREPAW researchers assisted colleagues in the Bahamas in providing supporting statistics for their replication study of the FIREPAW research study on Companion Animals Guardians vs. Owners. The study compared attitudes and behaviors of Bahamians versus the U.S. on issues surrounding treatment norms of companion animals. Both the original FIREPAW study and the replication study appear in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Anthrozoos.

The Breed Discrimination Study

“Discrimination based on breed of domesticated dogs among insurance companies: Economic vs. interdisciplinary explanations”, Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries, (2.2), 56-84. Click here to read.

The FIREPAW research article, “Analysis of programs to reduce overpopulation of companion animals: Do no-kill adoption and low-cost spay/neuter programs merely cause substitution of sources?”, is published by the peer-reviewed, scientific journal Ecological Economics. The article is based on long-term FIREPAW research on the most effective methods for reducing animal overpopulation. Analysis of Programs to Reduce Overpopulation Companion Animals-FINAL Journal

Public Education

FIREPAW principals, founders and researchers have designed and conducted numerous public seminars and workshops on the topics of ‘Stopping Animal Abuse’, ‘Changing Our Perceptions of Captive Animals’, ‘Animals as Economic Goods’, ‘The Financial Benefits of Pet-Friendly Rental Housing’, and ‘Stopping Companion Animal Overpopulation’, as well as giving interviews on these topics to numerous print, web, and television media outlets.

A FIREPAW Documentary Short about the problems–and solutions–of renting with pets. Created for landlords, rental property owners and tenants with pets, the video explores the findings from FIREPAW’s national scientific research study on companion animal renters published in the peer-reviewed international journal Anthrozoos and book written for landlords, rental property managers, and professionals working in the animal-welfare arena.

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Program Evaluation and Analysis

For many years FIREPAW’s primary research focus was conducting program evaluations, data analyses and strategic planning of ongoing programs for no-kill shelters and animal welfare organizations across the U.S. In more recent times we have shifted our research efforts to focus on the eco-animal impact of governmental policies and corporate behavior. See our Research page for details.